Studio: international art (88.1924)

DUBLIN—BELFAST—PARIS

MEDAL FOR THE AONACH
TAILTEANN. BY OLIVER
SHEPPARD, R.H.A., R.B.S.

DUBLIN.—Great things are expected
of the art exhibition to be held in
connection with the Aonach Tailteann in
August. An influential committee, con-
sisting of members from the Royal
Hibernian Academy, the Royal Dublin
Society and the Arts and Crafts Society
of Ireland, has been formed, and has
issued a prospectus inviting contributions
from artists of Irish birth and descent all
over the world. The responses already
made are sufficient to indicate that the
exhibition will be noteworthy. Two bronze
replicas of the Aonach Tailteann trophy,
by Mr. Albert Power, R.H.A., will be
awarded in respect of the two most meri-
torious works exhibited ; and medals of
honour, after the design by Mr. Oliver
Sheppard, R.H.A., will be awarded in
respect of every branch of art, both fine
and applied. Work that has previously
been exhibited elsewhere is eligible for
competition. It is hoped to obtain the
services of distinguished foreigners as
judges. Full particulars will be sent to
anyone applying to Mr. George Atkinson,
R.H.A., A.R.C.A., the Headmaster of the
Metropolitan School of Art, Kildare Street,
Dublin, who is acting as hon. secretary to
the committee. 0000
Irish art lovers have recently been greatly
gratified by the attention and respect lately
accorded to Irish artists in foreign exhibi-
tions. The Royal Academy contained a
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surprising number of works by local
painters. Sir William Orpen, R.A., Mr.
Charles Shannon, R.A., and Mr. Gerald
Festus Kelly, A.R.A., R.H.A., do not come
within this category, but Mr. Dermod
O'Brien, P.R.H.A., Mr. John Keating,
R.H.A., Mr. E.M. O'Rourke Dickey, Mr.
William Conor, Miss Kathleen Fox and
Miss L. M. Hamilton, who do, are all
represented worthily. Mr. Keating and Mr.
Conor are also represented in this year's
New Salon, Paris ; and Mr. Keating, with
Mr. Jack B. Yeats, R.H.A., is further
represented in the exhibition organised by
the French Committee of the Olympic
Games. The latter's striking rendering of
the annual swimming match in the Liffey
has excited much admiring comment, and
has just been awarded the silver medal (the
second distinction in the Art Section) by
the International Jury of Painters. T. B.

BELFAST.—The artists of Northern
Ireland have shown an admirable readi-
ness to contribute to the success of the
Aonach Tailteann. For art in Ireland
knows no boundaries ; and Dublin perhaps
affords greater appreciation of the work of
Northern artists than they can obtain in
their own rather more matter-of-fact and
utilitarian capital. Signs are not wanting,
however, to show that Northern Ireland is
on the verge of a considerable artistic
revival. The recent nineteenth annual ex-
hibition of the Ulster Art Club and the
Ulster Art Society's Spring Exhibition
both contained a good proportion of meri-
torious work, and were well attended. The
exhibition of paintings of Irish scenery by
Mr. Charles Lambe, A.R.H.A., whose
Dublin show was mentioned in The
Studio for May, was held during May and
June at the galleries of Mr. Magee, 4,
Donegall Square, Belfast, and had a de-
served success. T. B.

PARIS.—In the painting of which we
here publish a coloured reproduction,
Les Vendanges, M. Armand Coussens
expresses with much simplicity and spirit
the joie de vivre of sunny Provence, where
he was born and still lives. In the centre of
a circle of dishevelled young country-
people, the youth bearing a thyrsus, the
drummer perched on some time-worn